The public is invited to Ingram Library's Centennial Celebration and reception on Sunday afternoon January 27, 2008, in the library lobby at 2:30 p.m. The bluegrass band Bullsboro will open the program. The Carrollton High School Show Choir will perform songs from various eras of the twentieth century.

During the afternoon, University of West Georgia art students will be working on a centennial mural on the library's second floor. Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections will feature exhibits related to library and university history, and display items from Georgia's Political Heritage Program collections. The Thomas B. Murphy Holocaust Teacher Training & Resource Center will also be open for tours. Conceptual plans for Ingram Library's renovation and expansion will be displayed in the library lobby.

Attendees will have the opportunity to become charter members of Ingram Library's Penelope Melson Society and to contribute to the Second Century Collection. The library society is named in honor of Penelope (Nep) Stevens Melson, whose volunteer efforts developed and maintained the first library of the institution now known as the University of West Georgia. In January, 1908, she and her husband John Holland Melson, first principal of the Fourth District Agricultural & Mechanical School, asked the community to donate books to form a library for the new school. Mrs. Melson organized the 325 volumes collected at the book shower, and managed the growing library until the family left the A&M School in 1920.